2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFalse equivalent ..., hacking elections et hacking debates...LMAO
Why arent we talking about Hillary Clinton getting debate questions ahead of time? Thats a pretty valid attempt to influence an election," incoming press secretary Sean Spicer said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/312361-spicer-questions-if-clinton-should-be-punished-for-receiving
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MattP
(3,304 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)What difference does it make to them who got questions in advance?
He just talked about whatever he wanted to talk about regardless of the question.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Trump's utter lack of substance *should* have made him unviable, yet he got more than 60 million votes. It's surreal.
And I read Facebook posts from back in my hometown. They think they've elected Santa Clause. "We will see soon enough just how wonderful it's going to be", they tell me.
Geez, make it stop.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Must disregard critical thinking. Must stir up controversy and avoid "liberal media" tag.
Must obsess over spectacle and promote false equivalencies out of some twisted sense of what constitutes "balance."
Still the best article I've read yet related to the media's coverage of the 2016 campaign: http://www.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-cruel-crooked-caricature-doomed-clinton-520125.
triron
(22,240 posts)but MSM may try